This etching captures
a colonial dialogue from a strictly European imaginary. Vespucci is fully
clothed bearing his flag, cross, and astrolabe-symbol of technological
sophistication. The Amerindian is naked and provocative-inviting the European
to herself and the exotic new land. In the background notice other Amerindians
portrayed as cannibals.

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